Bad Karma

Illusion Of Safety | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 18, 1999)
• Label: Soleilmoon
• ASIN: B00000J762
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,686,497 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Fuck Reality

2. Sham

3. Pecking Order

4. Shadowplay

5. Bad Carnival Acid

6. Limerance

7. Xtreme State Of Fear

8. Quick Fix

9. Immanent

10. In 110 Countries

11. Speed Brutality Honesty

12. The Doctor Is In

13. Inhuman

14. The False Mirror

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Sounds of Hell, May 19, 2007

By 

M. Matkin "Coppermouse" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bad Karma (Audio CD)

I am a huge fan of Illusion of Safety (IOS). My goal it to own all of Dan Burke's IOS albums. That being said, here is my review of "Bad Karma."

Each album has it's own identity. This particular album, I feel at any rate, focuses on terror, paranoia and human cruelty. The first track searches and lands on a sound collage of people muttering and repeating terrible sound bits of mania and then it goes on to a countdown ending with a crescendo of breaking glass. What an incredible introduction! And it only gets better from there.

This album was my introduction to IOS and, subsequently, my favorite. I love the samples. They range from a woman saying, "human life is extremely cheap" to interviews of students from Dateline talking about a priest who is "too affectionate."

Another IOS album similar to "Bad Karma" is "Historical." It too has lots of samples and is rather dark in it's theme. "Inside Agitator" is also a little like "Bad Karma."

But believe me, all of IOS albums are truly different from one another.